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 Melissia wrote:
Someone roped me in to playing Archeage, the Log-In Queue Simulator MMO.

I feel you.

>> Sign up
>> Download
>> Install
>> Login
>> Queue time: 2-3 hours

Nope.

Just as bad, it demanded 28gigs of space to install an 8 gig game.

What kind of hack programmer does THAT?

The same ones hired by EA, probably.
52 gig requirement for Titanfall ahoy!

For switching continents in PS2, you go to your warpgate, hit the console there, and it should give you the list (and let you go to VR training too). Sometimes it takes a minute to shuffle if you're moving to a populated one, it's preferential to spreading everyone out.

Ahh yeah Heavies. I think they're still maybe the default class if you just want to run around and shoot people.

Max can be cool but it helps to have upgrades and matching guns, and I've never been good enough at the planes to do anything but run a mosquito from base to base. Sometimes I got cheeky and threw some C4 on the nose and kamikazed other planes though

 Sigvatr wrote:

 Melissia wrote:
Someone roped me in to playing Archeage, the Log-In Queue Simulator MMO.

I feel you.

>> Sign up
>> Download
>> Install
>> Login
>> Queue time: 2-3 hours

Nope.

You'd think they'd have learned from the FFXIV debacle just over a year ago...

It took Squenix roughly a week to fix that mess, iirc. Wonder how long it's going to take Archeage to resolve it?

I've spent my entire night getting my butt kicked at Sins of A Solar Empire.

A mate and I figured we'd try 2v2v2v2v2 with Normal and Hard opponents paired.

We're... Not doing well. It seems that Normal Opponents are far, far, far too easy, yet Hard Opponents are destroying us. It might be because we're playing against Hard-Random and it could be a specific enemy type that's killing us. - Probably Aggressive. Tomorrow we're going to go back to a far earlier autosave and try again. I'm not feeling too confident, considering a single upgraded Orkulus starbase just wiped my fleet, with no supporting enemy allies.

I figured 8 Ogrov torpedo cruisers would be enough. - It clearly wasn't.

 Sigvatr wrote:

 Melissia wrote:
Someone roped me in to playing Archeage, the Log-In Queue Simulator MMO.

I feel you.

>> Sign up
>> Download
>> Install
>> Login
>> Queue time: 2-3 hours

Nope.

I actually just found a couple videos on that game the other day, and thought about downloading it this weekend.

....Never mind!

 CthuluIsSpy wrote:
The same ones hired by EA, probably.
52 gig requirement for Titanfall ahoy!

And if anyone doubts me when I say it, rengar don't you even:



Final install size: 8 gb.

Kind of like that whole CoD Ghosts wanting 6 gigs of ram even though it would clearly run with 4? Wuddafux.

 Melissia wrote:
Just as bad, it demanded 28gigs of space to install an 8 gig game.

What kind of hack programmer does THAT?

The same guys who did Wolfenstein?

Not sure if you got that, but those genius programmers forgot to compress the game's entire audio. You know enough about vidya to know what that means.

 Sigvatr wrote:

 Melissia wrote:
Just as bad, it demanded 28gigs of space to install an 8 gig game.

What kind of hack programmer does THAT?

The same guys who did Wolfenstein?

Not sure if you got that, but those genius programmers forgot to compress the game's entire audio. You know enough about vidya to know what that means.

Same deal with Titanfall, apparently.
What's even better is that those audio files are for multiple languages, not just the one the customer knows.
So basically, space is getting wasted for nothing
I mean, was programming a language select option at installation that hard?

A friend made a drawing of my WoW OC.

 Sasori wrote:

Shale is by far the best companion in DA:Origins.

That's one of the main reasons I'm replaying the game. I think he's one of the ones I missed out on the first time through.

 Ashiraya wrote:
A friend made a drawing of my WoW OC.

Spoiler:

The eyebrow thing always makes me cringe, makes me think they're cockroach-people rather htan elves...

 toasteroven wrote:

 Sasori wrote:

Shale is by far the best companion in DA:Origins.

That's one of the main reasons I'm replaying the game. I think he's one of the ones I missed out on the first time through.

*It or *She.

The correct pronoun would be "it" if you refer to Shale in its current form. If you refer to Shale as a former dwarf, it would be "she".

 Ashiraya wrote:
A friend made a drawing of my WoW OC.

Spoiler:

Nice!
Dem eyebrows, tho. Well, could be larger, so eh

 Melissia wrote:

 Ashiraya wrote:
A friend made a drawing of my WoW OC.

Spoiler:

The eyebrow thing always makes me cringe, makes me think they're cockroach-people rather htan elves...

Well yeah, they turned out pretty thick. Still, I am satisfied.

I think Mel was referring to the eyebrows of all Belfs in existence

Anyway, I'll be levelling my Titan today. At level 18 now, so only two levels to go I'll probably use the Crucible. I'm pretty good at Control matches, and I can earn some Reputation and Marks, too!

 Sigvatr wrote:

The correct pronoun would be "it" if you refer to Shale in its current form. If you refer to Shale as a former dwarf, it would be "she".

Ah, right on. Still haven't got to there yet. I'm a very slow gamer, and I forget just how long the opening bit of this game is.

 toasteroven wrote:

 Sigvatr wrote:

The correct pronoun would be "it" if you refer to Shale in its current form. If you refer to Shale as a former dwarf, it would be "she".

Ah, right on. Still haven't got to there yet. I'm a very slow gamer, and I forget just how long the opening bit of this game is.

Starting as a mage in DA1 was... painful after the first. The 'no fade' mod has probably saved the sanities of a fair few people over the years...

Does the Ascension card game app count? Now that it finally works with my device I've been playing the crap out of it.

So, after last nights story of getting my rear kicked in Sins of A Solar Empire: Rebellion with my mate, I tried a single player tonight against a Hard-Random, one on one.

It was quite surprising that it took all night, and technically into the morning too.

3 times I managed to have my fleet rampage through the computers lines, even bombing their homeworld twice (and actually making them lose it the second time).

And yet, each time, I was beaten back by a reinforcing fleet. Which included an annoyingly unkillable titan - They were Vasari rebels.

I decided to take a slower approach next, taking a world, fortifying, moving on.

However, I was thrown off entirely when, for some reason, the Pirates randomly decided to pass by all my worlds next to the pirate base, to cross half the map - the length of about 6 planets, including flying through my capital world, to randomly try to bomb raid the world where my Novalith cannon was on.

I have no idea why it decided to do that - Do the Hard-Ai's actually give the pirates missions?

In any case, just as the pirates attacked, I achieved a Military Victory. No idea how or why... There was still a huge fleet out there, including a level 6 titan I had no idea how to kill. (Turns out the answer is corvettes), I wasn't even launching a mass invasion at the time, I was just fortifying.

And, it seems, the computer randomly surrendered.

Its one of the little foibles of the SOASE: Rebellion AI routines. If you've got a lot of resources and tonnes of ships and are systematically taking worlds, instead of just destroying them and moving on, they'll surrender.

As for me, Civ 4 Beyond the Sword:Next war. Just won Cultural.

World of Diving, not bad at all.

Since my birthday presents came in the mail, I am switching off between God Hand and Shin Megami Tensei: Nocturne. Since I am near the end of God Hand, I might finish my first run of it up first then move onto Nocturne.

Been playing the new updated version of Rome 2 Emperor version, and I dare say the game has been improved by a massive and very, very well done leap forwards! Now diplomacy actualy makes a difference, your trade partners takes their relationship with you serious and the battle system finaly flows well. Also they seem to have done something posetiv with the army tradition system, witch was good before but now is even better.
As for what faction I rolled out, well I choose Egypt of all things and have since I started this new game been enrolled in a brutal and bloody war with Mark Anthony and his realm. But after roping in several other kingdoms to wage war on his tunic wearing butt I now stand on the edge of victory, although I need to deal with Armenia

Mostly just playing skyrim and wargame over here. Both games are pretty awesome.

An online friend has a pretty nasty north korean deck (for wargame) that he gives to the AI playing enemy. Nothing's really fantastic but there's a lot of planes (almost 30) and even more helicopters as well as helicopter transports. Since it's north korea none of the anti air is really radar based so 'seed' planes don't really help. I added some rocket planes to stall or kill some of the ground based anti air before the rest of the air makes an air strike though. Hopefully this strategy works out.

Still playing D3 for the time being until I end up with Destiny.

Stuck at level 70 with most of my characters so now it's the soul-destroying gear grind with the goal of being able to do Torment 6 solo at a decent pace.

 Frankenberry wrote:
Still playing D3 for the time being until I end up with Destiny.

Stuck at level 70 with most of my characters so now it's the soul-destroying gear grind with the goal of being able to do Torment 6 solo at a decent pace.

Reminds me why i stopped playing diablo 3 but this was during like the 2nd or 3rd version of the game and before 'reaper of souls'. I just hated the grind for money or crap to sell on market and then to beat inferno difficulty. It was no longer fun starting at act 2 it was just a pain.

 flamingkillamajig wrote:

 Frankenberry wrote:
Still playing D3 for the time being until I end up with Destiny.

Stuck at level 70 with most of my characters so now it's the soul-destroying gear grind with the goal of being able to do Torment 6 solo at a decent pace.

Reminds me why i stopped playing diablo 3 but this was during like the 2nd or 3rd version of the game and before 'reaper of souls'. I just hated the grind for money or crap to sell on market and then to beat inferno difficulty. It was no longer fun starting at act 2 it was just a pain.

I've played since launch, so I know exactly what you're talking about, but honestly it's gotten a great deal better overall with loot 2.0. It just sucks that I get 10 or so legendaries and none of which are apart of the set that the character I'm playing, actually needs.